Court to revisit Horn trial status in April

2:14 PM,
Feb. 20, 2013

In this file photo DeSoto sheriff's investigators and other emergency personnel are shown blocking off a section of U.S. Highway 171 in Stonewall near where Justin Bloxom's body was found on March 30, 2010.

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MANSFIELD - The door opened slightly during a status conference today for a possible delay in this summer's scheduled capital murder trial of a sex offender accused in homicide of a 12-year-old Stonewall boy almost three years ago.

But for now, the June 24 trial of Brian Horn remains on the calendar. District Judge Robert Burgess set another status conference for April 17 to determine if concerns expressed by Horn's defense attorney Daryl Gold have been remedied.

Gold told Burgess the Capital Assistance Project of Louisiana, a nonprofit group that represents defendants facing a possible ...